People

Ye YuanProject Associate Professor
Topological soft matter
Vinayak Ganapati ParaleProject Associate Professor

Muneto NittaKeio University, SKCM² Visting Professor
High energy physics, field theory, string theory, in particular topological solitons, nonlinear sigma models

Yuya KodaKeio University, SKCM² Visiting Professor
Low-dimensional topology, 3-Manifolds, 4-Manifolds, Knots, Mapping class groups

Yuta NozakiYokohama National University, SKCM² Visiting Associate Professor
Low-dimensional topology

Dwaipayan ChakrabartiUniversity of Birmingham, SKCM² Visiting Associate Professor
Design of soft advanced materials; programmed self-assembly; topology; chirality

Mykola TasinkevychNottingham Trent University, SKCM² Visiting Professor
Active colloids, superhydrophobic and slippage properties of nanotextured surfaces, liquid crystal-colloid composites, capillary interaction-driven colloidal self-assembly at curved fluid interfaces, effects of topologically nontrivial confinements on the structure of liquid crystals and topological defects

Yair ShokefTel Aviv university, SKCM² Co-Principal Investigator
Soft Condensed Matter Physics

Harry AndersonUniversity of Oxford, SKCM² Affiliate Member
Supramolecular π-conjugated materials

Saad BhamlaGeorgia Institute of Technology, SKCM² Affiliate Member
Living tangled matter

Javier CampoCSIC, University of Zaragoza, SKCM² Affiliate Member
Magnetic Chirality, Magnonics, Purely Organic Magnets, Neutron Scattering

Mark BowickUSCB, SKCM² Affiliate Member
Symmetry, symmetry-breaking, geometry and topology